News from April 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) was joined by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), House Committee on Agriculture Ranking Member Glenn 'GT' Thompson (R-Penn.), House Committee on Appropriations Ranking Member Kay Granger (R-Texas), House Committee on Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.)and 67 other members in introducing the Trillion Trees Act of 2021.
By State Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks and Michael McCaul, Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement after reports of Alexey Navalny’s deteriorating health while he remains wrongfully imprisoned in Russia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Dominican national living in Providence who, since at least 1994, allegedly used the stolen Social Security number and other personal identifying information of a person who lived in Puerto Rico and who subsequently passed away in September 2018, to fraudulently gain a U.S. passport and...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney W. Anders Folk today announced a federal criminal complaint charging ANDREW THOMAS, 28, with being a felon in possession of a firearm. THOMAS will make his initial appearance tomorrow before Magistrate Judge Katherine M. Menendez in U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: DENVER - The Drug Enforcement Administration Denver Field Division alongside the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that Bruce Holder, age 55, of Grand Junction, was convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Fentanyl and Counterfeit Substances, Distribution of Fentanyl Resulting in Death, Distribution of Fentanyl, and Distribution of a Counterfeit Substance after a 11-day jury trial in Denver, Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: DENVER - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that Bruce Holder, age 55, of Grand Junction, was convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Fentanyl and Counterfeit Substances, Distribution of Fentanyl Resulting in Death, Distribution of Fentanyl, and Distribution of a Counterfeit Substance after a 11-day jury trial in Denver, Colorado.
By State Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
Release: The United States expresses its deep concern over Russia’s plans to block foreign naval ships and state vessels in parts of the Black Sea, including near occupied Crimea and the Kerch Strait. Russia has a history of taking aggressive actions against Ukrainian vessels and impeding access to Ukraine’s ...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-In an op-ed published by Real Clear Politics, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) outlined the major policy errors and unconstitutionality of H.R. 51, Democrats’ bill to grant statehood without amending the Constitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On April 19, 2021, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Destiny Marsh, age 21, of Council Bluffs, to 50 months in prison for possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute announced Acting United States Attorney Richard D. Westphal. Marsh was ordered to serve five years of supervised release to follow her prison term and pay a $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - A federal jury convicted a Norfolk, Virginia man Friday on charges of visa fraud related to a sham marriage and other immigration crimes along with trying to obstruct the testimony of a witness in an official proceeding.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: A criminal complaint was filed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Lionel Virgile with attempted arson by allegedly using an improvised incendiary device commonly known as a “Molotov Cocktail" to damage and destroy a New York City Police Department (NYPD) vehicle while police officers were inside...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Matthew Brehm (619) 546-8983.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney W. Anders Folk today announced a federal criminal complaint charging ANDREW THOMAS, 28, with being a felon in possession of a firearm. THOMAS will make his initial appearance tomorrow before Magistrate Judge Katherine M. Menendez in U.S. District Court.
By State Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) published a request for information in the Federal Register seeking information about security standards and technologies concerning mobile driver’s licenses. Responses to the request for information will support future DHS/TSA rulemaking to update the REAL ID Act implementing regulation to accommodate mobile driver’s licenses.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), issued the following statement in response to reports that the Green New Deal resolution will be reintroduced in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - Jerome Davis, 39, of Brunswick County, was sentenced on Friday to 240 months in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a quantity of cocaine, heroin, and crack cocaine, distribution of a quantity heroin, possession with intent to distribute a quantity of cocaine, cocaine base (crack) and marijuana, possession of firearm by convicted felon, and possession a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: TYLER, Texas - Two individuals have pleaded guilty to their involvement in postal offenses in Texas and Louisiana, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: Missing 15-year-old located in the sleeping compartment after driver is detained on outstanding warrant while attempting to enter Naval Station Newport.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. - Daniel Corbett, 32, who held a position of public trust as a former case manager at a nonprofit organization assisting homeless families was sentenced for the possession of child pornography, April 6, as the result of a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) probe.
